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Interfaith Tu'Bishvat Celebration in Berlin

JCR | 01.04.2017

10 February 2017, Berlin - In recognition of the World Interfaith Harmony Week 2017, Faiths In Tune invited youth from a local Jewish High School as well as Unaccompanied Minor Refugees from Muslim and other faith backgrounds to jointly celebrate the Jewish holiday of Tu'Bishvat in Berlin.
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"We need to face up to common challenges"

JCR | 01.04.2017

March 23, 2017 - Jonathan Arkush has become the first Board of Deputies President in living memory to address the United Synagogue Council.
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Rededication of the Tabgha monastery

Nearly two years after the arson attack on the Benedictine Monastery in Tabgha, the place was rededicated on Sunday, February 12, 2017.
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Holy Land Co-ordination 2017

JCR | 01.02.2017

14-19 January 2017 - Following on from the HLC2016 meeting with refugees in Jordan, the annual meeting of the Holy Land Co-ordination (HLC2017) began this year on Saturday 14 January, the eve of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, with a day devoted to the situation of Christian migrants and refugees present in Israel.
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British Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) and Board of Deputies of British Jews criticizes US Travel Ban

JCR | 01.02.2017

On January 31st, 2017, the Council of Christians and Jews released the following statement on the recent US travel ban:
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2017-2018 Cardinal Bea Centre Scholarships

JCR | 01.02.2017

The Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies is pleased to announce scholarships for students who will register to the 2-year Postgraduate Degree Program in “Judaism and Christian-Jewish Relations” for the Academic Year 2017-2018.
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Religious leaders of the Holy Land in Auschwitz

Vivien Laguette | 01.01.2017

AUSCHWITZ – November 2016 - Thirty senior religious leaders of the Holy Land, among them Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, visited the Auschwitz death camp during a historic visit to condemn extremism and hatred.
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Norwegian church denounces Luther's anti-Jewish writings

JCR | 01.01.2017

The state Lutheran Church of Norway has condemned the anti-Jewish legacy of Martin Luther, the German theologian who started the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century .
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Statement by the Director-General of UNESCO on the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, a UNESCO World Heritage site

Irina Bokova | 01.01.2017

Paris, 14 October 2016 — “As I have stated on many occasions, and most recently during the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee, Jerusalem is the sacred city of the three monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is in recognition of this exceptional diversity, and this cultural and religious coexistence, that it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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